- 1. Big Band group keeps memories alive
- (In The Parks)
- ... Kumor, who was a first-grade schoolteacher for 35 years, also was a performer with her husband on a Mississippi riverboat out of Moline, IL for 10 years. A number of the musicians also are singers such ...
- Created on 03 February 2026
- 2. Valley Birding Festival starts next week
- (Entertainment)
- ... The Lower Rio Grande Valley sits on the convergence of the Central Mississippi migratory flyways, meaning many millions of birds pass through our area every year on their way north and south. With environmental ...
- Created on 27 October 2025
- 3. Valley Birding Festival starts next week
- (Entertainment)
- ... the convergence of the Central Mississippi migratory flyways, meaning many millions of birds pass through our area every year on their way north and south. With environmental influences from the Gulf Coast ...
- Created on 30 October 2024
- 4. Quinta Mazatlán presents Fish Ecology with Dr. Taylor
- (Around Town)
- ... took his first academic position in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University where he spent 12 years and moved up the ranks to full Professor. He then moved to Texas in 2007 ...
- Created on 22 March 2022
- 5. Winter Texan reunited with painting
- (In The Parks)
- ... how the painting was purchased at a Goodwill store in Mississippi before making it back to Marrs. Marrs said she had a habit of taking pictures of all of her paintings, but for some reason, she did not ...
- Created on 15 March 2022
- 6. Partnering ministries geared to see joyful faces
- (News)
- ... and individuals in not only Alabama, but also in Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina, which joined last year. Also partnering with them is the Oklahoma group from the Blanchard area, that sent backpacks ...
- Created on 21 December 2021
- 7. Zoo welcomes sharks to exhibit
- (Around Town)
- ... month. These two male nurse sharks were brought from the Mississippi Aquarium and are now living in the 30,000 gallon Gulf of Mexico tank found in the Russell Aquatic Ecology Center. The sharks are about ...
- Created on 09 March 2021
- 8. Desert Polynesia – new to the valley
- (Entertainment)
- ... have performed throughout the United States, including California, Washington, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, and Hawaii. They have even performed ...
- Created on 04 March 2020
- 9. Quinta Mazatlán presents Reflections on a Disappearing River
- (Around Town)
- ... in the last 150 years. Until the middle of the 19th century the Rio Grande was a mighty river. It was often called North America’s second Mississippi. Looking at the Rio Grande River today, it is hard ...
- Created on 28 February 2020
- 10. McAllen Wind Ensemble to premier new composition
- (Entertainment)
- ... and was an instant success. After graduating high school, he earned a scholarship at Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, Mississippi. There he met the composer Robert W. Smith, who extended a full ...
- Created on 30 January 2020
- 11. Harlingen – Prefect place to celebrate birds
- (Around Town)
- ... Harlingen is blessed to have three of the five bird flyways coming right through the Rio Grande Valley ... those three are the Mississippi, the Central and the Eastern flyways. And, of course, the best ...
- Created on 23 October 2019
- 12. RGVBF has more than birds to talk about
- (Around Town)
- ... the river, the Valley has 30 unique species of birds. The RGV is also major migration corridor because of the convergence of two major flyways, the Central and Mississippi. The big numbers aren’t that ...
- Created on 15 October 2019
- 13. Sager named Entertainer of the Year at Valley Star Awards
- (Valley Star Awards)
- ... Nominees were The Agency, Ralph & the Cruisers and Renaissance Rockers. The winner was Ralph & the Cruisers. Jerry Bennett was then invited to entertain. He sang several songs such as “In a Mississippi ...
- Created on 02 March 2012
